samba and ":" in filename

[Andy Green]

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On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:48, Wade Hampton wrote:

> When I try to write to a Win2K box, it will not let me write these
> files.  If I replace the ":" with a "-" it will let me write the files.

> Any help would be most appreciated.

: is a reserved character in the Windows world.. like A: C: ... 

If its possible, use tr on your filenames: tr ':' '-' will do your earlier 
edit.  For example

echo mylogfile-12:21:32.txt |  tr ':' '-'

should yield

mylogfile-12:21-32.txt

- -Andy
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